Abu Hamza found guilty of US terror charges

Abu Hamza 'was part of global terror campaign'

The prosecutor in the US trial against Islamic preacher Abu Hamza told jurors that he was part of a global campaign to spread terror.

Opening arguments have been made at Abu Hamza's trial in New York Credit: Johnny Green/PA Archive/Press Association Images

Federal prosecutor Edward Kim described Mr Hamza as a man with a mission to establish an al-Qaida training camp in the US, and said the defendant financed and sent two men to Bly in Oregon to set up the compound to train others.

Abu Hamza had been jailed since 2004 in Britain on separate charges. He was extradited to the US in 2012 only after the US agreed he would face a civilian trial not a military one, and that the death penalty was off the table.